These are the homeworks we assigned for Math Olympiad practice for the fourth and fifth graders at TOPS Elementary School during the 2003-2004 school year. You are welcome
to use them; however, please let me know that you are using them.
Homework 18 - 13 May 04 - There's Math in My Food!
Homework 17 - 6 May 04 - Get Rich Quick!
Homework 16 - 29 Apr 04 - Polyhedra (For a picture of the five regular polyhedra, Click Here)
Homework 15 - 22 Apr 04 - Pancakes Gone Crazy (For the recipe from which this was adapted, Click Here)
Homework 14 - 15 Apr 04 - Stump the Postman
Homework 13 - 1 Apr 04 - An Even Number World
Homework 12 - 25 Mar 04 - Logic Puzzles (For more problems similar to these, buy the magazine "Math Puzzles and Logic Problems", put out by Dell Publishing.)
Homework 11 - 18 Mar 04 - Barking Dogs
Homework 10 - 11 Mar 04 - Opening and Closing Lockers
Homework 9 - 4 Mar 04 - Connect the Dots, but Don't Lift Your Pen! (Click here for the graphics.)
Homework 8 - 26 Feb 04 - Counting Rectangles (For a more difficult example: click here)
Homework 7 - 12 Feb 04 - Who's the Winner? (For what we did in class, click here)
Homework 6 - 5 Feb 04 - A New Operation
Homework 5 - 29 Jan 04 - Mobius Strips (Thanks PBS Kids)
Homework 4 - 22 Jan 04 - Boxes With No Lid
Homework 3 - 15 Jan 04 - Walking to School
Homework 2 - 18 Dec 03 - Latin Squares
Homework 1 - 11 Dec 03 - Six Fives
Links:
Cool Math!
Copy of Polyhedra we constructed in class
Polyhedra
Knight's Tour Website
Elementary Problem of the Week
Questions? E-mail me at chanusa@qc.cuny.edu.
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